Summary of Film

Yesterday our group met up after school to work on our project because one of our team members would be out of town for the rest of the week. During the meeting, we figured out our characters, the plot of the film, and began writing our script for the two minute film opening. Our story centers around Jordyn Diaz, a senior in high school who spent most of her high school career focused on her school work and grades, neglecting her social life. She and her friend Amelia Jackson had been friends since middle school and Jordyn decided this year that she wanted to make senior year memorable for both of them. Jordyn takes it into her hands to create a bucket list that will make this year the best year of their lives so far before they move away for college. Their bucket list goals range from having her first prom date to trespassing and other tasks that bend (or break) the rules. As Jordyn and Amelia cross things of their list, things begin to get out of hand and Jordyn needs to figure out how she can fix all her mistakes before her friendship and senior year are jeopardized. 

The five stages of our plot are:

Exposition: Jordyn brings up the bucket list to Amelia, coming up with ways to complete the list alongside her best friend.

Rising Action: Amelia and Jordyn begin to cross things off the list, some of Jordyn's goals being risky and breaking some rules.

Climax: Jordyn and Amelia get caught as things begin to get out of hand. Amelia tells Jordyn the bucket list isn't worth all this trouble and Jordyn refuses to give up, ending in a fight and a falling out between the two.

Falling Action: One of Jordyn's teachers confronts her about her slipping grades and worsening behavior. Jordyn realizes she had lost sight of her goal, that the only reason she had made the bucket list was to create lifetime memories with Amelia.

Denouement: Jordyn apologizes to Amelia and after the two walk the stage at graduation, they cross one last thing off the list and realize they had completed the bucket list.

A subplot we're including in our film is a small romance between Jordyn and another character as she wants to find a date for the prom to cross it off her list.

We also wanted to have Jordyn break the fourth wall at certain points of the film, interacting with the audience as if they were her friend.

Some notes I took during our meeting: